Tribute to Kazi Nazrul Islam (The national poet of Bangladesh)

https://youtu.be/8fTlwZ1ZQ5E

মোরঘুমঘোরে এলে মনোহর
নমো নম, নমো নম, নমো নম

শ্রাবণ-মেঘে নাচে নটবর
শ্রাবণ-মেঘে নাচে, নাচে, নাচে...
শ্রাবণ-মেঘে নাচে নটবর
রমঝম, ঝমঝম, রমঝম

শিয়রে বসি চুপি চুপি চুমিলে নয়ন

মোরবিকশিল আবেশে তনু

নীপ-সম, নিরুপম, মনোরম.

মোরফুলবনে ছিল যত ফুল

ভরি ডালি দিনু ঢালি'
দেবতা মোর, দেবতা মোর, দেবতা মোর

হায় নিলে না সে ফুল
হায় নিলে না সে ফুল, ছি ছি বেভুল
নিলে তুলি' খোঁপা খুলি' কুসুম-ডোর

স্বপনে কী যে কয়েছি তাই গিয়াছ চলি'
জাগিয়া কেঁদে ডাকি দেবতায়

প্রিয়তম, প্রিয়তম, প্রিয়তম

Mor ghumo ghore Translation by: Haider Khan You came when was unconscious in my sleep The stealer of my heart! Still, I send you my salutations! Namo Namo Namo Namo Namo Namo The rain-clouds od Shravana Show Lord Shiva dancing in love Ramo jhamo Ramo jhamo Ramo jhamo You sat near my head Stealthily, you kissed my eyes My whole body and soul enraptured Flowered like a tree in full blossom Resplendently beautiful I offered you all the flowers from my garden You in your absent-mindedness took nothing You picked only the small garland from my bundled-up hair Did I say something in my dream to turn you away? Awake now, I cry for my soul-mate, my divine lover Beloved, my beloved Priyotomo Priyotomo Priyotomo

Why are decisions like these made?

English is an international language. If you learn English, you can visit anywhere in the world.

Kids, who are studying English from elementary schools, get higher studies easier than others. Now if you stop them from learning and make them study another language (Like Arabic, Bangla or French etc.) they will miss a huge part of learning. They won’t understand the news reports from different countries. They won’t be able to speak with international language in countries. When they are travelling, they will start facing language-related problems in the airport(s). They won’t be able to understand a word other than the one language which they had been studying with.

 

I didn’t expect this to happen in Canada. A good school has stopped their English medium and became fully French. Students are asked to move to a different school or study French. The world is trying to move forward so why is it making a bad?

Why can’t I have it?

Playing with my mind. Trying to accept things easily, as it comes or didn’t come in my life.

If I didn’t get anything, then there could be any of the two reasons behind it.

One, I didn’t deserve it.

Or two, the thing doesn’t deserve me. Either way, it is good for me and I must take it easy.

The truth is I can’t do anything about it, so I better accept it happily, if I want to be happy.

Disturbance

When you are working on something with full concentration, something happens, or someone comes to you to distract you. How would you feel?

These distractions give me a headache. I became angry, sometimes irritated, sometimes I misbehaved. My son, the poor boy had faced this so many times. But he is very patient. Still, he didn’t stop disturbing me, especially when I’m working.

But later I found that every time I stopped, that gives me extra time to think, to figure out a problem to fix it.

I understood, if anything stopping me, then there must be a good reason behind it. I better take it easy.

14 days

I have isolated myself for 14 days, due to Corona Pandemic. In these 14 days, I thought I will complete all my pending job. You can understand now, I couldn’t. But I did very few of them.

For me, these 14 days passed just like a day. It's true that I’m not feeling well. But slowly I can do all the household work and so I did. As I’m working slowly, whenever I felt too bad, I laid down; so, at the end of the day I found, there was still a lot to do, but no more time left.

In these 14 days, the thing I enjoyed most is that I didn’t have to go to work. I was kind of have the freedom to do whatever I wanted to do. I like working outside, but deep inside me, I enjoy staying at home.

Due to my health condition, if I had to stay home more times, I’m sure I won't mind. I wish during this Pandemic time I could stay home and work for my office.

The people who mostly benefited during my 14 days self-isolation time is my housemates. I take care of everything about them. When and what to eat, taking personal care etc. I hope I didn’t torture them too much. Because of me they had to go to bed early and woke up early. Maybe they are now praying to send me to work soon.

I know everyone isn’t like me, who can stay alone and work alone. For them I can suggest, there must be many things, like hobbies you wanted to do for a long time. Now you have time, so you can concentrate on them and utilize your time.

When do they meet?

I believe what Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (novelist) said. “who is yours, will come to you by himself/herself”. Then I started thinking, what will happen if both people kept thinking that another person will come? They keep waited in two different places. How/when will they meet? Maybe, only a miracle can make it possible. That will be more interesting.

Having control over food

I like food. But I always try to have control on it. Like I drink two cups of tea daily. It doesn’t mean I don’t want to take more, but you know, I can’t make it as an addiction. Sometimes I drink coffee. Again, not more than one cup/mug in a day. My home country is Bangladesh. So, obviously my main food is rice. But I take it in certain amount and once in a day.

I break this food rule only in Eid days. On those days, I just eat, as much as I want… so, whole year, I wait for Eid days.

We should consider this situation

Meat is a very good source of protein. So, in hospitals, we should have Halal meat option. Because Muslim patients can’t take general meat.

When I was in the hospital, I had been served Turkey sandwich, which I couldn’t take because it wasn’t Halal. But I could take the veg muffin.

Can’t expect to have anyone in life, forever.

You can’t depend on someone or something by hoping that the person or the thing will be there for you, forever. In my childhood whenever I was in pain, I use to run to the window. There was a tree beside the window. My silent friend, who was always there for me, always listened what I said, never left. I used to talk with it silently. I believed; it was listening to me. Many times, I sat beside it when tears were falling from my eyes. It was there, I felt at least someone is there sitting beside me. I thought after my death, may be only the tree will remember me.

After some years, our neighbor cut that big tree, to make a big apartment. I surprised; it went out before me! I also learned; I can’t depend on anyone that they will stay with me for ever.

I can talk, when I know the person is listening.

I don’t like to talk to any angry person. I better stay silent and let them think that they win. Sometimes I just say OK/Yes to make them calm down.

In a conversation, if the other person gets angry, I can feel that the person is not able to think properly or give me a logical answer. They will just argue to win to feel better. I don’t want to argue a person like that.

I can only talk, when I know the person is listening. They might agree with me or not. They will have a good logic behind that, and they will express that nicely.